The Voice of the Narrator in Children's Literature: Insights from Writers and CriticsCharlott Otten, Gary D. Schmidt As Otten and Schmidt note in their preface, voice is a broad metaphor. Thus the 41 essays in this collection provide varied approaches, examining point of view, focus, selection of details, tone, and even illustrations as part of the narrative identity. Eight genres, including picture books, fantasy, realism, and biography, receive separate study in generally brief articles by writers and more substantial analyses by critics. . . . In her contribution, Jill Paton Walsh describes contemporary criticism as an `impenetrable thicket of technical terms.' In most cases, the critics here avoid jargon. They speak clearly, offering practical criticsm accessible to anyone seriously concerned about narrative technique in children's literature. Choice |
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... voice of one is barely different from the voice of another , much like the anonymous back- ground chatter at a cocktail party . Authentic narrative voices are unmistakable . To use Henry Fielding again as an example , reading him we ...
... narrative voice still refuses to be pinned down . It embodies , in language , writers ' attitudes , viewpoints , visions of the worlds they create , and of the real world in which we all live . To try to under- stand how the narrative voice ...
... narrator and the credulity or sophis- tication of the reader . In this section , three authors examine the voice of the narrator in books as different as those in which an old woman narrator metamorphoses into a young woman narrator ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Narrating Chaucer Grimm New England | 25 |
Finding the Narrative Voice through Dramatically | 32 |
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